Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: When co-teacher leaves the room. I work with a co-teacher for two inclusion classes. From time to time my co-teacher leaves for small group instruction, the students I am left with completely change and do not behave the same way that they did when my co-teacher is in the room. Might I add that most of the issues are with my boys, and my co-teacher is a man. Today I snapped and asked them, "What makes it so different when Mr. "so and so" is not in the room?" One of the boys said, "Because he is a man!" I did not respond to their comment, but it did bother me. How do I get these boys to stop misbehaving when my co-teacher is not in the room with me? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Make sure that you and your co-teacher are on the same page with discipline and that your consequences are the same. If you co-teacher does most of the discipline or he is stricter, you students may have identified this and feel that they can get away with more when he is out of the room. Make sure that you are actively disciplining students as much as you co-teacher. Also, have a talk with your co-teacher to discuss the situation. He may also have some insight into the issue.